Re: Tests/exams (m.c. tests)

In a message dated 04/18/2002 4:37:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:

<< When a student takes a multiple-choice exam and doesn't recognize the
 'correct' answer, he or she guesses, with a 1/4 or 1/5 "chance."  What is
 the probability that he or she will repeat that choice at a later
 time?   That they will _learn_ the errors they have made?  That they will
 now "know" a bit of 'disinformation?' >>

It depends on a lot of things, for example, how you write and compose
the MC question.